Blackmailing is the act of blackmailing, that is, promise someone something to make that person behave in a certain way. An attempt to extract money or other source of income from an individual under threat of making public information or personal facts about his present or past.
The word blackmail is classified as an intransitive verb and a right transitive verb in Portuguese.
The act of blackmail can also be related to the promise of treats, favors or threats in the attempt to convince or force someone to act in a certain way or assert an issue other than believable.
The call "emotional blackmail" is characterized by involving a person's feelings in exchange for something, when blackmail does not involve exchanges of material goods, but favors or services.
In English, the word blackmail is translated as blackmail.
Synonyms of blackmail
- to threaten
- coerce
- extort
- crook
blackmail or blackmail
The correct way to spell the word is blackmail. The word "blackmail" is wrong. Blackmail is the conjugated form of the verb blackmail, in the 3rd person singular of the present tense or in the 2nd person singular of the imperative.
blackmail is a crime
In Brazil, the act of blackmailing someone can be characterized as extortion crime. Threats, of whatever nature, to reveal secrets or to spread false information about an individual, in exchange for money or favors, so that it causes scandals and dishonor its image is categorized as an immoral crime of libel and defamation, according to Brazilian law.
Blackmail in the Penal Code
Some blackmail can be considered extortion, something that is foreseen in the article 158 of the Criminal Code:
"Embarrass someone, through violence or serious threat, and with the intention of obtaining for themselves or others an undue economic advantage, to do, tolerate what is done or let something be done".
The penalty can be imprisonment, which varies between four and ten years in prison, plus payment of a fine.
